Perfect Stranger Posted 9 years ago
Vocabulary

[expressions] got nothing on you

Dear Users,


Could you please tell me what "to have nothing on you" means? I asked my former co-worker the following question: How's office life? How are the new folks? and his reply was:


Pretty good, same old, same old, but they ain't got nothin on yew.


I assume he wanted to say something like "they have nothing on you“ ?

  

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I assume he wanted to say something like "they have nothing on you“ ? He said what he wanted to say. As a mild joke, he was pretending to speak like someone who is poorly educated.

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I assume he wanted to say something like "they have nothing on you“ ?

He said what he wanted to say. As a mild joke, he was pretending to speak like someone who is poorly educated.

But the meaning is as you suggest. The new people are not as good as you.